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Environment and Society in Byzantium, 650-1150 = Between the Oak and the Olive /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Environment and Society in Byzantium, 650-1150/ by Alexander Olson.
Reminder of title:	Between the Oak and the Olive /
Author:	Olson, Alexander.
Description:	XI, 258 p. 1 illus.online resource. :
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Europe—History—476-1492. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59936-2
ISBN:	9783030599362

Environment and Society in Byzantium, 650-1150 = Between the Oak and the Olive /
Olson, Alexander.

Environment and Society in Byzantium, 650-1150Between the Oak and the Olive /[electronic resource] :by Alexander Olson. - 1st ed. 2020. - XI, 258 p. 1 illus.online resource. - New Approaches to Byzantine History and Culture,2730-9363. - New Approaches to Byzantine History and Culture,.

1. Introduction -- 2. Middle Byzantium's Environmental and Economic Antecedents -- 3. An Evergreen Empire -- 4. The Decline of the Olive in Middle Byzantium -- 5. Re-arranging Woods and Scrub -- 6. The Return of the Olive -- 7. The Devil Chops Wood -- 8. Conclusion.

This book illuminates Byzantines' relationship with woodland between the seventh and twelfth centuries. Using the oak and the olive as objects of study, this work explores shifting economic strategies, environmental change, and the transformation of material culture throughout the middle Byzantine period. Drawing from texts, environmental data, and archaeological surveys, this book demonstrates that woodland's makeup was altered after Byzantium's seventh-century metamorphosis, and that people interacted in new ways with this re-worked ecology. Oak obtained prominence after late antiquity, illustrating the shift from that earlier era's intensive agriculture to a more sylvan middle Byzantine economy. Meanwhile, the olive faded into the background, re-emerging in the eleventh and twelfth centuries thanks to the initiative of people adapting yet again to newly changed political and economic circumstances. This book therefore shows that Byzantines' relationship with their ecology was far from static, and that Byzantines' decisions had environmental impacts.

ISBN: 9783030599362

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-030-59936-2doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

1256313
Europe—History—476-1492.

LC Class. No.: D111-203

Dewey Class. No.: 940.902

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